This repository is obsolete
===========================

This is the *old* Git repository for Libreboot. You can still see the old
files. Browse them here:\
<https://notabug.org/libreboot/obsolete-repository-preserved-for-historical-purposes/src/149273c6742aeed14ec1aaca019f552cfb109457>

When cloning this repository, go into it and do this:

    git reset --hard 149273c6742aeed14ec1aaca019f552cfb109457

This old repository was too cluttered. Build system, website, images,
documentation etc were all in the same repository. Libreboot has been split up
into new repositories:

* Website: <https://notabug.org/libreboot/lbwww>
* Images (for website): <https://notabug.org/libreboot/lbwww-img>
* Build system: <https://notabug.org/libreboot/lbmk>

About lbmk
==========

This is the build system in libreboot. You could say: lbmk *is* libreboot!

Libreboot was *forked* into a new project called osboot:
<https://osboot.org/>

Unlike libreboot, osboot permits binary blobs. Osboot was then forked into a
new branch (in its Git repository), called `libre`, which you can see here:
<https://notabug.org/osboot/osbmk/commits/libre>

The `libre` branch of osboot has the same policy as Libreboot: zero binary blobs.

The new `lbmk` repository for Libreboot was forked from osboot-libre, at Git
revision `20ef8e43421b3c9bc6c34084530ee35b49fdf76d` which you can see in the
osboot-libre branch:

<https://notabug.org/osboot/osbmk/commit/20ef8e43421b3c9bc6c34084530ee35b49fdf76d>

osboot and osboot-libre are both lead by Leah Rowe, as is Libreboot. Leah is
the founder of all these projects.

Differences:

* osboot permits binary blobs and is to be a rolling release distro of coreboot
* osboot-libre has the same policy as libreboot: no binary blobs. However,
  osboot-libre is also intended to be a rolling release coreboot distro
* Libreboot focuses on stable releases

Basically, Libreboot is intended to focus on coreboot stable releases, and
backport patches inbetween releases. Whereas osboot and osboot-libre are to use
coreboot HEAD (from coreboot master branch in its git repository) at all times.

Libreboot development by Leah Rowe resumed in December 2020, via osboot and
then osboot-libre, with the intention of then moving it back into Libreboot.

On this day, 18 May 2021, the lbmk Git repository for libreboot looks like not
much work was done to it. That's because it's a hard fork of osboot-libre.

To know what work was done, therefore you should look at the `libre` branch of
osboot right up until commit `20ef8e43421b3c9bc6c34084530ee35b49fdf76d`.
